throwback 2017.
Oh. Parkson recent low was 0.225 and now trades at 0.285.

That's the value trap in investing. To be a good investor you need to have strong conviction in your analysis and research. This is a very good trait but then there's a very fine line between this and stubbornly wrong. When one is wrong and stubborn, one will fail to see past his/her own failings....

I am not who and what you seek and neither do I possess no holy grails

Paper trading or fake trading. The very unpopular subject in the stock markets and forums. LOL! Oh yeah, let me be the sarcastic bugger and mention it once more.

1. Trade paper not same. Trade real market different feel.

2. You wanna learn, you need to pay school fees man!!!

But then....

Since I am or rather I was extremely serious about stock trading and I wasn't prepared to be the silly pumpkin and lose tons of money (only to be consoled by them others who claims that's just school fees or tuition fees). I decided to find out if I was GOOD ENOUGH to trade the markets and more importantly I needed to find out what I am good at and what I will be lousy at. Learn it properly and without being the silly pumpkin or the stock market water fish. I wasn't going to mati katak just because I wanted to embark on this stock market journey.

And I realize then,  this will be a long drawn process of learning. I was WILLING to paper trade for years. I looked at it objectively and considered other professions like Doctors or Lawyers. How many years did they burn the midnight oil and doing nothing but studying? And after that, the years of practice....

So what gives me the divine right that I could ever be a market whiz in a mere couple of months?

Hence I was ever willing to paper trade for years.

take for example, trading with using charts and indicators.

Ah, chart indicators. You have the ABC soup. RSI, MACD, MA, SMA, Stochastic, Fib etc etc etc....

Take the simple RSI indicator. Now the beginner would explore by noting market entries and exits using the buy/sell indicators generated by the indicator. Could I make this work. Hence, the paper trade to test it (of course, I would have had run back testing) . How long would I need? 1 month? 2 months of testing? What's my success rate? Mine was around a 52% success rate. Was I willing to embark on an adventure to trade full time with such success rate? I wasn't. It was like a flip of coin. Sometimes can. Sometimes cannot. Then I moved on by adjusting the period. I thought 14 days was too slow. Then I changed it to 10 days and even 8 days. (do google if this issue is confusing) And next I moved on by incorporating other indicators with the RSI. Indicators such as MACD, Stochastic and the SMAs. Slighty better but I wasn't comfortable with the success rate I had.....

And this took time. Lots of time. I had to make research and I had to make my own testing....

Even then, sometimes I questioned myself. Maybe I was just not good enough....

This learning process was long and it took years. At least for me.

.... and you are basically still asking about the same old stocks like Hevea, Homer..... after all these years.... 

Gotta say this... man, either are you stuck badly in these stocks or what?

Tidur ah?
ps: still looking for my second trade.....

Regarding Mayban....
The strategy...

First. To have a target of 10... for me... it's right off the charts. Which means ur strategy is dictated by the chart...

If that was the case, the buy is supported by the fact the stock did have a support of around 8.50 recently. However how strong of a support is that? I for one, would be worried of the immediate down channel which is looking rather prominent.. Can u see that channel/trend?

If basing on this I would be asking if the risk/reward justifies the trade. Doesn't look like too much meat there....

** here is the chart **

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**addum**

so if one buy at 8.50 with the target set at 10, the potential upside is 1.50 or about 17% ...
and the stop loss? 7%? 7.5%? 10%?
The gain is not that much , yes?

Yeah dividends can help... but then this is a time factor issue where if it was me, I would probably factor in other stuff...
for example, previously at 10, Mayban was trading with a trailing dps of 57 sen or a pretty generous 5.7% yield. Yet here we are, despite that generous 5.7% yield, the stock is now at 8.44 and the yield is 6.75% (higher yield due to the falling stock price). So definitely the dividend doesn't seem to help the 'investor' at all. Of course this could drag on forever, if one starts insisting by holding the stock on a longer time frame, such as more than one year...  but then... this would have gone against the initial strategy of betting to win 1.50 from this mayban trade, yes?

The meat in the initial trade isn't really that fat in the first place. Now if I have to hold it longer, then my compounded returns would be down for this stock play....
and then what about the DRP factor if I were to hold it on a longer time frame? Would earnings dilutions  be a factor (I have yet to look see into this...so... )

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Stocks are priced to its future prospects... right now, the banking sector is not looking too good as global banks are cutting its rates. A lower Opr from Bank N would cause lower loan interest rates which means the risk is that Bank earnings would decline in the near future. Less earnings would means the possibly of lesser dividends. Adding to its problems, its already been reported that loan growths are already declining...

So.. atm.. I would not jump in.

Just sharing la... I could always be wrong by being too conservative....

And this ain't an attack.

If I can beat ASB I happy already..

But this week is quite an important week, with US China trade discussion and Malaysia Federal Budget. This will impact my outlook for next year.

Well here's a chart of a stock .....
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well? Is a yes? or a no?

just fyi .....

But momentum only started turning in Nov 16 and even then there was a price pullback. Earnings were still falling in the Nov 16 results. The only all clear was in end Feb 17, where Maybank price was at around 8.20-8.30. Agree?

Well here's a chart of a stock .....
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well? Is a yes? or a no?

Onion dude, the point is that you need to find your own niche and setups. I cannot be explaining everything in full glory details, can I?

this blue line how to generate?

What sort of trading is it here?

look good. uptrending?

The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) attributed the decline to the fall in exports of electrical & electronic products (-RM4.1 billion), crude petroleum (-RM1.2 billion), refined petroleum products (-RM805.1 million), palm oil and palm oil-based products (-RM366.9 million), liquefied natural gas (-RM61.5 million) and natural rubber (-RM14.7 million).

Meanwhile, there were RM101.5 million worth more of exports of timber and timber-based products during the period tracked.